Le Figaro was surprised by the absence and silence of a figure who was the focus of the former US President’s campaigns Donald Trump In 2016 and 2020, at a time when this Republican candidate is fighting the most important political battle of his life, with the expectation of a very close result between him and his Democratic rival. Kamala HarrisWhy was Ivanka Trump absent?
The French newspaper explained – in a report written by Victor Mira – that Ivanka (43 years old) shares her account on… Instagramher exercise routine with 7.6 million subscribers, showing photos of her 11-year-old son Joseph and his skateboarding exploits in an artificial swimming pool in California, and her perfect love for her husband. Jared Kushner It mobilized aid for those affected by Hurricane Helen, but there was no mention of Trump’s father after January 5, 2021, and there were no election ads in his favor and no political slogans.
Mira: Ivanka is interested in her exercise routine.. There is no mention of her father, no election ads in his favor, and no political slogans
Le Figaro pointed out that the media and political absence of the “first daughter” raises many questions, given that she was the focus of the Republican campaign systems in 2016 and 2020, and that she held – when her father was in the White House – a very strategic position as a senior advisor responsible for the advancement of women through… the job.
Professional projects
According to the writer, Ivanka only appeared in this campaign once alongside her father, 5 days after he survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and she ascended the stage in all-white clothes to take the family photo alongside her brothers and sisters and Melania, the candidate’s wife. She too was almost silent.
When her father announced that he would be a candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, Ivanka wrote on Instagram that she was choosing “this time to give priority” to her young children and “private life as a family.” She continued, “I have no intention of getting involved in politics, although I always love and support my father. “I will do this in the future outside the political sphere.”
Romuald Sciorra, director of the Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States at the Institute of International Relations, explains the absence of Ivanka and Kushner, nicknamed “Javanka,” for professional reasons: “The couple have their own affairs and they do not want to be associated with Trump in the event of his defeat and his appeal of the election results, most likely because that would harm their professional projects.” Partners may distance themselves from them and refuse to finance them.”
Sciorra: The couple has their own affairs and they do not want to be associated with Trump in the event that he is defeated and challenges the election results, most likely because that would harm their professional projects, and might alienate partners from them and refuse to finance them.
The writer mentioned that (Kushner) is Trump’s son-in-law – who was his special advisor for the Middle East and responsible for negotiating… Abraham Accords Which aims to normalize relations between Arab countries and Israel – today he is the head of Affinity Companies (a $3 billion investment fund supported by Saudi Arabia), not to mention his contribution to Kushner Companies, and his leadership with his wife of two luxury real estate projects in Albania, one of which was designed by Ivanka.
Settlement of accounts
Sciorra believes that the reasons for this distance from political life could also be of a political nature. He draws three scenarios for this, the first of which is that this Jewish couple has ambitions within the Republican Party, which is “a credible hypothesis regarding Kushner, who could run for Senate in 2028.”
The second scenario indicates that relations between Kushner and Trump were not good because, according to the writer, “Trump blames his son-in-law for not being completely on his side during the Abraham Accords.” Rather, he was more radical than him in favor of expanding the Jewish colonies in the West Bank.
The last hypothesis is a settling of scores between the leaders of the old party and the young Kushner, whose path to the top of power witnessed many victims. It seems that a number of historic Republicans have not yet comprehended the dismissal of Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, who has now become an opponent of Trump, even though he was one of the first to They supported him in 2016, and he was expected to become vice president until Kushner fired him.
The writer concluded that Ivanka may be absent in favor of her older brother, Trump Jr., who appears to have taken over the management of the family’s affairs, and since the beginning of the campaign, he has been traveling to the corners of the country to spread the word about his father, and he was the one who convinced him to choose his friend J.D. Vance as vice president.